Janez Strašek

In memoriam

Lazaristi, žrtve vojne in komunistične revolucije, duhovniki, bogoslovci, bratje (Vincentians, victims of war and the communist revolution, priests, seminarians, members of the order)

Cenotaph; he is buried in Svetice, Croatia. Janez Strašek was born December 11th, 1906 in Slake, Podčetrtek. He decided to become a priest after graduating from high school. He joined the Vincentians in Groblje in 1928, and studied at the Ljubljana seminary from 1929 to 1934. He was ordained on August 13th, 1933. He served in Radeče until 1935 and Belgrade until 1938. He was a curate, catechist, and parish administrator in Kosovska Mitrovica. From 1942 to 1944 he served in Kragujevac, and then relocated to Svetice, Croatia on September 8, 1946, where he took over management of the parish. The parish priest of Ozal, Matija Kranjčić, was murdered by the communists in 1945, upon which Strašek also became the administrator for Ozalj. Strašek was killed on the morning of Palm Sunday, March 30th, 1947 after saying mass in Ozalj en route to mass in Svetice. Three members of the local political committee ambushed him in the woods and shot him in the head with a hunting rifle. Villagers found his body in the woods the next day covered with leaves. He was buried in Svetice. Source: http://www.brezmadezna.com/md/mucenci.htm

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